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Fineline painting: weapons, beans and polymorphic geometric

Shape: spherical, stirrup spout at the top, spout broken off Colour/technique: cream engobed, painted dark brown (fineline technique) Stirrup spout: cream engobed, double-headed serrated snake Vessel body: horizontally divided into four parts, a bundle of weapons between the stirrup spout, frieze with stylised waves running around in the field below, frieze with stylised pyramid running around in the field below, frieze with beans running around in the lowest field (Beatrix Hoffmann, 2008)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Moche
Object type
Clay vessel with stirrup spout
Dimensions
Height: 22,5 cm
Depth: 14,8 cm
Width: 15,1 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V A 18430

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Moche 0 - 600
    where
    Peru
    Chimbote
    who
    Moche
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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